Re: Privacy Concerns with UbuntuPhone

On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 8:26 AM, Paul Campbell <[email protected]> wrote:
> I think the real solution to this problem is hardware architecture that
> isolates the baseband part of the phone and treats it as potentially hostile
> (rather than giving it free range through memory)

The Freetronics Arduphone kit (which was available at the workshop
sessions at LCA2014 recently) is like that.
http://www.freetronics.com/products/arduphone-arduino-compatible-cellphone
The baseband unit (in this example, 2G only) gets connected to the
microphone & speakers, and otherwise only accepts AT commands from the
serial interface.

There's probably no need to compromise the baseband, as by design and
desired operation is is a spy unit, and the telco already has all your
data (aka 'metadata', which just means 'data' in this context).

-jim

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